monster

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ big, giant, huge, large

▪ hideous, horrible, ugly

▪ bug-eyed, hairy

▪

cheap sci-fi movies with bug-eyed monsters

▪ six-eyed, three-headed, etc.

▪ evil, heartless, inhuman

▪

What sort of inhuman monster could do such a thing?

▪ alien, mythical, prehistoric

▪ sea

VERB + MONSTER

▪ create (often figurative)

▪

The government has created a bureaucratic monster.

▪ battle, defeat, destroy, fight, kill, slay, vanquish (often figurative)

▪

He wanted to fight the monster of poverty.

▪ be inhabited by

▪

a barren wilderness inhabited by monsters

MONSTER + VERB

▪ attack sb/sth, devour sb/sth, kill sb/sth

▪ lurk

▪ growl, roar

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adj.

Monster is used with these nouns: ↑storm, ↑truck